Button loop



July 18, 1933. HEATHER Q 1,918,334

BUTTON LOOP Filed Aug. 21, 1930 Patented July 18, 1933 UNITED STATES GEORGE B. HEATHER, OF WEST HAVEN,

RATION. OF CONNECTICUT PATENT OFFICE,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPO- BUTTON Loor Application filed August .21 1930. Serial 170.476,?86.

This invention relates to button loops par- 7 ticularly adapted for use on garment straps,

the loop being specially adapted to be sus pended at the end of a strap loop in readmess to be clipped over a button the shank of which may be urged from a button receiving loop into a smaller retaining loop from which it cannot be unintentionally withdrawn.

The objects of the invention are to provide iting the relative outward movement of said ends in said plane; and to provide such a button loop with means for securing thewire ends against relative movement out of the plane of the loop. With these and other objects in view, as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and in the drawing illustrated, but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed. 7

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is an upright elevation of the devlce in normal conditlon, a reversed elevation of which would be identical there- H with; the Figure 2 is an upright elevation of the device in expanded condition; and the Figure 3 is a side elevation of the device illustrating a clip mounted thereon.

The device is preferably made from a piece of resilient wire of which a middle portion is bent to provide the suspension loop 1 and the spring arms 2 and 3 depending therefrom to provide the axially associated loops 4; and 5 having an intermediate normally contracted throat 6. The wire end portions 7 and 8 are arranged horizontally parallel in spaced relation in the plane of the loop, the portion 7 being bent, as at 9, to oil-set the portion 7 within the loop 5, each wire end portion 7 and 8 being provided with a shoulder 10 ad- 50 jacent the wire extremity, the shoulders 10 being preferably formed by axially bending the extremity of the wire end portion 7 away from the throat 6, and by axially bending the extremity of the wire end portion 8 toward the throat 6, the bent extremities providing the interengageable shoulders 10in the plane "of the button loop, as illustrated by the Figures 1 and-2. The shank S of'a button within the loop 4, as illustrated by the Figure 1, may be manually urged into the throat 6 by expanding the button loop as illustrated by a the Figure 2, the expanding of the loop caus ing the wire end portions '7 and 8 to relatively slide along the plane of the loop, the expansion of the loop being limited by the interlocking engagement of the shoulders 10, as illustrated by the Figure 2. The cli member 11 encloses the wire end portions and 8 and secures them against relative movement out of the plane of the loop as illustrated by the Figure 3.

I claim: A reversible button loop comprising a piece of resilient wire of which a middle portion is bent to form a suspension loop, the remaining portions cooperating to form as sociated loops in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally contracted throat,

one arm being off-set in the plane of the loops within the adjacent loop and having its extremity bent axiallyaway from said throat, and the other arm being bent into spaced parallel relation with, and overlapping in said plane, the off-set arm and havlng 1ts extrema ity bent axially toward said throat, the bent extremities providing interengaging shoulders in said plane to limit the relative expanding movement of said arms in said plane, and I a clip member securing the parallel arm portlons agamstrelatlve movement out of said plane.

GEORGE B. HEATHER. 

